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How can I block out certain dates throughout the year for a registration form?

Asked by
ripley_bb
on December 12, 2014 at 04:13 PM

I work in the Office of Admission at West Virginia Wesleyan College. We are in the process of creating a new website for our institution and I am been looking at JotForm as a tool to purchase for the new website for all of our Admission visit forms.

Before we purchase the either the Economy or the Professional versions I wanted to see if we are able to block out certain dates throughout the year for visits. On most of our forms this isn't a problem because students will only be selecting from 1-3 dates.

However, our weekday visit form allows someone to sign-up to visit anytime throughout the year. To give you an example we would like all weekends to be blocked off because we do not have visits on the weekends. Also, all Fridays from May 15th through August 8th would need to be blocked off as our office only works half days. Then there would be holidays such as Good Friday, July 4th and several other days that we wouldn't be hosting visits.

I have looked through your forums and noticed several other posts similar to this and most of the time someone on your staff said something along the lines of "Send us your dates you need blocked off and we can do it for you." This would be great and if that were the case. If we get the full code I would be able to make adjustments in the future but I don't know how to do it on the front end.

This is our biggest hurdle to jump before we decide to purchase JotForm as an institution and if we can get it figured out we will definitely be purchasing this product.

I have only added a submission so that you can see it in action, but the same logic is applied even if you add more fields to it.

It follows the dates that you have added above, but can be easily be changed to work differently.

One thing I should note.

The dates such as 3rd of April, 7th of September and so on - single dates have been added by themselves, while for Fridays there was a bit of logic so that no Fridays are allowed between the specified dates.